SIBERIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1918, Page 5

SIBERIA.

THE LANDING AT VLADIVOSTOK. GERMAN PRISONERS AS BOLSHEVIKS. Washington, April S. The State Department has learned that 50 British were included in the Vladivostoek landing party and were sent, ashore solely to protect the British Embassy. Two hundred and fifty Japanese landed at 6.30, following the landing of two companies of Japanese on April 5. There waß no resistance. Received April 9, 7.15 p.m. London, April 9. The landing of the British at Vladivostock is officially confirmed. It is stated that the Japanese landing in Vladivostoek was inevitable owing to the repeated brushes with and attacks upon Japanese by so-called Bolsheviks, though some of the perpetrators are German prisoners. BOLSHEVIKS ANTAGONISTIC. PROCLAIM WAR AGAINST JAPS. Received April 9, 7.15 p.m. Petrograd, April 8. The Government has proclaimed a state of war'exists throughout Siberia and ordered the Siberian Soviets to. organise detachments of the Red Guards to resist the Japanese The Commissary of Foreign Affairs has formally protested "to the Allied representatives against the landing at Vladivostoek, and demanding an immediate of the forces. ' The Allies, replying, characterised the landing as purely a local affair due to local complications which will soon be settled.